A blood red sky opens the latest in a line of Star Wars: The Force Awakens teasers which gradually but sparingly release more and more images of the new film.

We have previously seen the huge stormtrooper force of the First Order gather before Domhnall Gleeson’s character General Hux. Now, in the TV spot which has been titled “All the Way” on Facebook, they look into the sky as an explosion of red light illuminates the atmosphere will John Williams’s Darth Vader theme plays.

Can we assume this is Resistance firepower glancing off an energy field protecting Starkiller Base? Either way it looks like war as we see clips of carnage around it from the film, which has now been given a PG-13 status by the American classification board, making it possibly the most violent Star Wars movie yet.

TIE missiles head for an X-wingCredit:
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Han Solo, who we’ve yet to see in battle, sends a stormtrooper backflipping with a laser blast. Rey fires at Kylo Ren, who hacks at the lasers rather than elegantly deflecting them as Jedis of old did. At other points in the intense minute we see Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) lead his X-Wing squadron into battle with an exhortation. New footage of the Starkiller Base dogfight seems to be from the viewpoint of an X-Wing pilot, the camera moving around in the cockpit outside of which other Resistance aircrafts are being taken down by seeking missiles. Finn can be heard saying “You don’t know what I’ve seen. We all need to run.”

This could be the refering to the size of the First Order, which Finn knows firsthand through his time as a stormtrooper. More tantalisingly, he might have even had a Force vision. Again, the Force is something we see more of here than we have done previously.

He's still got it: Han Solo sends a stormtrooper flyingCredit:
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Andy Serkis’s computer generated baddie Supreme Leader Snoke – as yet unglimpsed – can be heard asking Ren if he has felt the awakening. “Yes” says Ren. To which Snoke replies “even you have never faced such a test”, further emphasising the idea that Snoke is a force-sensitive being who has had experience of Jedi masters of old.

JJ Abrams continues to keep another character completely off stage: Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker himself. We’re over 10 TV spots in an still no sightings beyond him laying his robotic hand on R2-D2. In a video promoting his Star Wars Force For Change charity initiative, we see Abrams wondering the same question.